2001 Translation

THĒRION, thērion

Sounds Like: thay-REE-on

Translations: beast, wild animal, a beast, a wild animal

From the root: ΘΗΡΙΟΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a wild animal or a beast. In some contexts, especially in prophetic literature, it can refer to a monstrous or symbolic entity. It is used as a noun in sentences to denote a creature that is not domesticated.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G2342 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 4:5

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:26, 4:68, 10:9

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 6:36
• Isaiah — 5:29
• Acts of the Apostles — 28:4, 28:5
• Hebrews — 12:20
• Revelation — 11:7, 13:1, 13:2, 13:11, 13:12, 14:9, 14:11, 17:3, 17:8, 17:11, 17:16, 19:20, 20:4, 20:10
• Shepherd of Hermas — 22:6, 22:8, 22:10, 23:1, 23:3, 23:4, 23:5, 24:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 5 — 8:287
• Book 9 — 9:197
• Book 17 — 5:117, 5:120, 11:309

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 2:13, 31:8, 33:5
• Book Five — 1:4

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 31:3, 112:3

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 3:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 37:20, 37:33
• Leviticus — 17:13
• 1 Maccabees — 6:36
• Isaiah — 5:29
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 7:5, 7:6, 7:7, 7:11, 7:19, 7:23
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 7:5, 7:6, 7:7, 7:11

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 4 — 1:6, 1:8, 1:10, 2:1, 2:3, 2:4, 2:5, 3:7

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 28:4, 28:5
• Hebrews — 12:20
• Revelation — 11:7, 13:1, 13:2, 13:11, 13:12, 14:9, 14:11, 17:3, 17:8, 17:11, 17:16, 19:19, 19:20, 20:4, 20:10

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΗΡΙΟΝ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΗΡΙΟΙΣ — wild beasts, animals, beasts
• ΘΕΡΙΑ — beasts, wild animals, animals
• ΘΗΡΙ — beast, a beast, wild animal, a wild animal, (of) beasts, (of) wild animals
• ΘΗΡΙΑ — beasts, wild animals, animals
• ΘΗΡΙΝ — beast, a beast, wild animal, a wild animal
• ΘΗΡΙΟ — beast, wild animal, wild beast, a beast, an animal
• ΘΗΡΙΟΙΣ — to beasts, to wild animals, to animals, to creatures
• ΘΗΡΙΟΥ — of a wild beast, of a beast, of an animal, of a creature
• ΘΗΡΙΩ — to a wild animal, to a beast, for a wild animal, for a beast
• ΘΗΡΙΩΔΩΣ — savagely, fiercely, like a wild beast, brutally
• ΘΗΡΙΩΝ — of beasts, of wild animals, of animals
• ΤΗΡΙΟΥ — of a wild beast, of a beast, of an animal

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